"Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our
deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our own lives. [...] The artist is
meant to put the objects of this world together in such a way that through them you will
experience that light, that radiance which is the light of our consciousness and which all
things both hide and, when properly looked upon, reveal. The hero journey is one of the
universal patterns through which that radiance shows brightly. What I think is that a good
life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of
adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare?
And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulﬁllment or the
ﬁasco. There's always the possibility of a ﬁasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss."
- Joseph Campbell